Ananta Bijoy Das

Ananta Bijoy Das (1985-12 May 2015) was a Bangladeshi secularist blogger who was affiliated with the Ganajagaran Mancha movement, which proposed the banning of all Islamist political parties in Bangladesh and the execution of convicted war criminals. On 12 May, he became the third Bangladeshi blogger of 2015 to be hacked to death by Islamists.

Biography
Ananta Bijoy Das was born in 1985 in Bangladesh. He blogged on Mukto-Mona, a rationalist and anti-fundamentalist blog, and was a member of the Ganajagaran Mancha forum, which demanded that all Islamist political parties (primarily Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami) be banned and convicted war criminals be executed. He was a moderator on the forum, with Avjit Roy being another major figure. In 2015, Avjit Roy was hacked to death by Islamists while visiting Bangladesh for a book fair in Dhaka.

On 12 May 2015, Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by four armed men while riding on a rickashaw into Sylhet. He was rushed to the hospital, but he died of his wounds. The extremist group Ansar Bangla-8 was happy with his death, but declared in a statement aimed at journalists that they did not want to be credited for the attack, claiming that al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent carried out the attack.